{"id":5272,"date":"2010-05-14T00:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2011-03-23T23:21:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:21:49","slug":"troops-gather-for-national-day-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/troops-gather-for-national-day-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops Gather for National Day of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/franklin-graham-prays-at-pentagon\/\">spate of controversy<\/a>, American military members gathered for National Day of Prayer celebrations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/?script=news\/news_show.php&amp;id=49387\">around the world<\/a>. A Chaplain&#8217;s assistant in Iraq had a fairly basic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/05\/07\/38760-soldiers-gather-together-to-observe-national-day-of-prayer\/\">explanation for the popularity of the chapel services<\/a> in the combat theatre:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I believe people are more passionate [in Iraq],&#8221; said [Sgt. Antonio Henderson, the brigade chaplain&#8217;s assistant]. &#8220;They get more into it. I believe prayer works, no matter where you are, but I believe people pray more when their lives are in danger.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a spate of controversy, American military members gathered for National Day of Prayer celebrations around the world. A Chaplain&#8217;s assistant in Iraq had a fairly basic explanation for the popularity of the chapel services in the combat theatre: &#8220;I believe people are more passionate [in Iraq],&#8221; said [Sgt. Antonio Henderson, the brigade chaplain&#8217;s assistant]. &#8220;They get more into it. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[491,88,4,2,407,11,10],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-antonio-henderson","tag-army","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-national-day-of-prayer","tag-prayer","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}